KUALA LUMPUR: A SECURITY guard claimed trial at the magistrate’s court to voluntarily causing hurt to his partner by hitting her with a broomstick two weeks ago.

MELAKA: A mechanic has pleaded not guilty in the Ayer Keroh Sessions Court here to sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl.

KUALA LUMPUR: Nearly 70 per cent of the 12,623 domestic violence cases reported over the past two years have resulted in prosecutions.

AMIR (not his real name) wants the authorities to do more to protect domestic abuse victims — so that others do not share the same fate as his late sister.